Morning Links - Saturday March 15, 2025
Saturday, March 15, 2025Arts
Press Release: 2025 Youth Art Month Exhibition 🏛 Portland Museum of Art
Buy Local
Soap bubble has new washers but… 🏛 Reddit
Climate Emergency
Letter: Save net energy billing for homeowners, not solar farms 🏛 Bangor Daily News
Constitutional Crisis
'I want to be heard': Veterans march at Maine State House to protest federal cuts - YouTube - CBS 13 News
Maine joins lawsuit to reverse Department of Education layoffs 🏛 Maine Public
Will Trump's Dept. of Education changes impact federal student loan borrowers in Maine? - YouTube - CBS 13 News
‘Damage can not be overstated’ Chellie Pingree says, raising concerns over national park workforce culling 🏛 Bangor Daily News
Opinion: Trump and MAGA want to make eugenics great again 🏛 Portland Press Herald
A Mainer’s view of Trump’s America from Europe 🏛 Bangor Daily News
Letter: We must stand up to the Trump administration’s gleeful cruelty 🏛 Portland Press Herald
Letter: Musk’s cuts are not the work of a scalpel 🏛 Portland Press Herald
Letter: Canadians break 50 years of vacation tradition 🏛 Portland Press Herald
Opinion: Susan Collins’ betrayal of Maine demands accountability 🏛 Portland Press Herald
I am so pissed off at Senator King right now 🏛 Reddit
Angus King sold us out!!! 🏛 Reddit
Wow Senator King won’t take voicemails and has an excuse on his answering machine 🏛 Reddit
Senator King left a crappy excuse on his answering machine that cuts you off 🏛 Reddit
Angus King's term goes till 2031 🏛 Reddit
Angus turned his voicemail off 🏛 Reddit
We see you Angus. 🏛 Reddit
Education
Updated: Breaking News: Cyber Criminals Steal Bar Harbor's School Construction Payment 🏛 Bar Harbor Story
Bar Harbor School Department victimized by cybercriminals 🏛 Maine Public
Mount Desert Island schools defrauded of more than $1 million in cyber theft 🏛 Portland Press Herald
More than $1M for construction of Bar Harbor school stolen in cybercrime - YouTube - WMTW-TV
As Maine Legislature considers new formula for school funding, superintendents weigh in 🏛 Portland Press Herald
Maine has a chance to make higher education more inclusive 🏛 Bangor Daily News
Food and Drink
New Filipino Restaurant Planned For Portland, Maine 🏛 WCYY
Guns
Maine bill would allow permitted people to carry concealed weapons in schools - YouTube - CBS 13 News
Health Care
Democrats look to advance stopgap budget after failure of short-term MaineCare deal 🏛 Maine Morning Star
Democrats move ahead with stopgap budget after MaineCare deal falls apart 🏛 Bangor Daily News
Lawmakers try new approach to fund MaineCare after supplemental budget deal fails - YouTube - CBS 13 News
Democratic leaders plan for partial budget after Maine’s Senate Republicans kill healthcare funding 🏛 Maine Beacon
What the budget stalemate in Augusta could mean for Maine's struggling hospitals 🏛 Maine Public
Delays in Maine state budget causing hardship for substance use treatment center 🏛 Portland Press Herald
Housing
Letter: Support a rental registry to protect Maine tenants 🏛 Portland Press Herald
LGBTQIA+
Letter: Children should not be political props 🏛 Portland Press Herald
Letter: Trump administration interpretation of Title IX is step backward 🏛 Bangor Daily News
Letter: Genetics and athletic performance are not intertwined 🏛 Portland Press Herald
Outdoors
It’s Maine Maple Time! 🏛 Maine Audubon
How tree bark can lift your spirits 🏛 Bangor Daily News
Photography
Video, photos show red moon over Maine during total lunar eclipse - YouTube - WMTW-TV
Police
New bill would open more lines of communication between Maine schools, law enforcement - YouTube - CBS 13 News
Police trying to identify woman whose body washed ashore in Maine 🏛 Boston.com
Police ask for help identifying body found at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth 🏛 WGME
Police investigating after body found near Maine's iconic Portland Head Light 🏛 WMTW
Maine State Police ask for help identifying woman found at Portland Head Light 🏛 Portland Press Herald
Maine State Police seeking help to identify body that washed ashore near Portland lighthouse 🏛 Bangor Daily News
Politics
Committee approves stopgap biennial budget, adds funding for Medicaid and urgent needs 🏛 Maine Morning Star
Democratic leaders to push baseline state budget after partisan impasse 🏛 Maine Public
Maine committee advances no-cuts budget to prevent state shutdown 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine
Lawmakers move forward with democrat-crafted state budget - YouTube - WMTW-TV
The hollow resistance of the CR debacle 🏛 Dear Mainer
Susan Collins and Angus King vote to pass 6-month funding bill in last hours before shutdown 🏛 Bangor Daily News
Republicans’ budget bill rules out federal earmarks for state projects 🏛 Portland Press Herald
Students urge Bowdoin to act after endowment report disclosure 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine
Public Safety
Is measles coming to Maine? Will my vaccination protect me? 🏛 Portland Press Herald
'The worst fire I've ever seen': 1 killed, 4 injured in overnight Portland fire 🏛 WGME
Things to Do
Celebrate Irish heritage: St. Patrick's Parade brings music and ... 🏛 WGME
East Bayside Trail Fest 🏛 Portland Trails
We are beyond excited to have (former local) author @shanayoungdahl.bsky.so… 🏛 Bluesky - Print: A Bookstore
Transportation
Long-term road project will detour traffic at Veterans Bridge and I-295 🏛 Portland Press Herald
MTA Drops the Gorham Connector Project 🏛 The Gorham Times